Who The Folk?! Podcast
This is the Podcast home of TC Jewfolk's Who The Folk?! Podcast. Hear from interesting Members of the Tribe from all over the Minneapolis and St. Paul area.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 318
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Meyer Weinshel
This week I sit down with Meyer Weinshel, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota who is teaching Yiddish to people of all ages, most recently in a class offered by Jewish Community Action. …
00:35:00 |
Sun 26 Jul 2020
Aly Jones
This week I talk with Aly Jones, the new coordinator of JFCS NextGen. We talk about growing up in a really small Jewish community, what led her to the Twin Cities, and how to keep the NextGen momentu…
00:26:26 |
Sun 19 Jul 2020
Candida Gonzalez
This week I talk with artist and art consultant Candida Gonzalez. We talk about the importance of art in the coronavirus era, the intersectionality of being a queer, Russian/Puerto Rican Jew, and the…
00:38:56 |
Sun 12 Jul 2020
Steve Simon
This week we talk to Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon to talk early voting, which kicked off on June 26 for the August 11 primaries. We talk about why voting by mail is a public service in th…
00:16:34 |
Sun 28 Jun 2020
Mike Goldstein
On this week’s show I’m very excited to welcome Plymouth Police chief and director of public safety Mike Goldstein. We talk about what it’s like to lead a police department, why he’s opted for transp…
00:43:36 |
Sun 21 Jun 2020
Madalina Kelner
This week, I talk with Madalina Kelner, a recent graduate from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and an artist who will be presenting her first post-graduate gallery show, Behind The Veil, later th…
00:24:14 |
Sun 14 Jun 2020
Dudley Deshommes-Kohls
On this week’s Who The Folk?! Podcast, we talk to Dudley Dez-um Kohls, a black, gay, Jew who is also a nurse in the time of a global health pandemic. Mostly this week, however, I listen. I don’t try …
00:50:19 |
Sun 07 Jun 2020
Rabbi Adam Rubin
This week I’m very excited to be joined by Rabbi Adam Rubin, who starting July 1, will be the new senior rabbi at Beth Jacob Congregation. Rabbi Rubin talks about his path to the rabbinate, being a r…
00:35:42 |
Sun 31 May 2020
Shira Yardley
Today we’re joined by Shira Yardley, who works at the Sabes JCC as a job coach with the inclusion program and the garden manager. Shira talks about the program has transformed itself in the coronavir…
00:19:30 |
Sun 24 May 2020
Ronen Pink
This week we’re joined by Ronen Pink, a college student with a 3D printer who has started producing much-needed face shields for organizations throughout the Twin Cities. We talk about what inspired …
00:19:49 |
Sun 17 May 2020
Susan Segal
This week we are joined by the honorable Chief Judge Susan Segal of the Minnesota Court of Appeals. We talk about her appointment to the bench last November, how Public service is in her blood, and h…
00:27:37 |
Sun 10 May 2020
Josh Olstein
This week we talk to Joshua Olstein, a St. Paul resident and a nurse, who has relocated to New York during the coronavirus crisis. WE talk about why he decided to go to Manhattan, what he’s seeing in…
00:26:49 |
Sun 03 May 2020
Alisha Baines Simon
This week we talk to Minnesota Department of Health’s Alisha Baines Simon about some of the COVID-19 modeling that she has been apart of. We talk about what her pre-COVID job was at MDH, how the data…
00:26:36 |
Sun 26 Apr 2020
Ron Rabinovitz
Today we’re joined by Ron Rabinovitz, who details his nearly 20-year friendship with Jackie Robinson. We spoke on April 15, which was the 73rd anniversary of Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrie…
00:22:17 |
Sun 19 Apr 2020
Ariana Feygin
What’s it like to cook, under pressure, on television? Or to step into a kitchen and work as a 9-year-old? This week we are joined by teen cooking prodigy Ariana Feygin. We talk about Ariana’s Corona…
00:29:44 |
Sun 12 Apr 2020
Leo Dworsky
This week we’re joined by Leo Dworsky, a 16-year-old St. Louis Park High School junior who is a finalist in the MPR Classical Minnesota Varsity competition. We talk about his start in singing, why he…
00:18:26 |
Sun 05 Apr 2020
Seth Baker
This week I’m joined by Dr. Seth Baker, a pulmonologist and ICU physician who became Facebook famous last week for an important post on why we need to keep our distance and listen to the guidelines s…
00:22:49 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
Brandon Schorsch
What makes Brandon Schorsch’s job at Jewish Community Action so personal? Brandon is JCA’s new outreach and engagement manager at Jewish, working on the organization’s campaign on combating anti-Semi…
00:34:11 |
Sun 08 Mar 2020
Zoe Moskowitz
This week we sit down with the insatiably curious Zoe Moskowitz, a pastry cook at the James Beard Award-winning Spoon & Stable in Minneapolis. We talk about her move to Minneapolis last year, how the…
00:42:36 |
Sun 01 Mar 2020
Genevieve Parker
This week I’m thrilled to be joined by Genevieve Parker, Jewfolk’s new Community Engagement Manager. We talk about what brought her to Minnesota, her Jewish journey, and what she’s looking forward to…
00:17:21 |
Sun 23 Feb 2020
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